How It All Went Down at Iran's Fordow
"You do not build a multilayered underground bunker complex with centrifuges and other equipment in a mountain for any peaceful purpose.""[The military does not] grade our own homework [this is left for the U.S intelligence community to produce damage assessments].""We know that the trailing jets saw the first weapons function and the pilots stated, quote: 'This was the brightest explosion that I've ever seen. It literally looked like daylight'.""When the crews went to work on Friday, they kissed their loved ones goodbye, not knowing when or if they’d be home. Late on Saturday night, their families became aware of what was happening."General Dan Caine, chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States
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General
Caine revealed that the U.S. aerial Sunday raid on Iran -- Operation
Midnight Hammer -- represented the culmination of a secret military
project that originated in 2009, with the involvement of a small team
comprised within the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The
years from then to the present were spent studying Tehran's method in
building its uranium enrichment underground lair. The end stage was to
analyze the method whereby the U.S. military might dismantle the
facility in the event that Iran attained the capacity to weaponize that
uranium to produce atomic devices.
Top
officials in the Pentagon took the enlightened step of revealing
details relating to the U.S. bombing of Iran's major nuclear facilities
-- as well as details surrounding the anticipated and subsequent defence
of a U.S. military base in Qatar from a retaliatory attack from Iran.
Both events representing intricate operations holding little margin for
error. During the briefing, no mention was made of Tehran's uranium
stockpile's whereabouts.
The
drama that unfolded last weekend when six B-2 stealth bombers under
cover of darkness, with each carrying two 30,000-pound bunker-busting
rounds, dropped them on the Fordow nuclear enrichment facility, an event
foreordained by the imminence of Tehran's successful exploitation of
covertly enriching uranium to near-bomb-level and its stated intention
to annihilate American ally Israel, when the IDF took the initiative to
begin its preemptive bombing raids over Iran. That 15 years of work
produced the armaments capable of penetrating the mountain fastness near
Qom.
In that spectacular scenario, the initial bomb "forcibly removed"
a concrete cap that had been emplaced by Iranian officials, meant to
shield the complex from attack. The following eleven bombs fell
precisely down and into mountaintop vents within, to maximize
destruction. Each successive bomb penetrating deeper into the
underground laboratories than the one preceding it. A seventh B-2 bomber
carrying two additional bombs, it was explained, flew with the other
six as a spare. It later released its two bombs on Iran's Natanz nuclear
facility, upon which all seven planes returned home to Missouri.
Known
formally as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator -- or Guided Bomb Unit 57
-- the bombs were designed and built specifically for that mission; they
released according to plan, hit the intended targets, and exploded as
intended -- only when they reached the depth of penetration each
succeeded to, explained the general.
As
these details were being revealed on Thursday, President Trump and
Defense Secretary Hegseth were voicing anger at the disclosure of a
classified early assessment of the bombing raid in the form of a
document produced by the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency,
suggesting the attack may have set the Iranian nuclear program back by
months, and not years.
In opposition, both President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth claimed the strike to have "obliterated" Tehran's
nuclear development capacity, as opposed to General Caine's more
selective language, awaiting a complete analysis by the U.S.
intelligence community. President Trump was moved to direct the Pentagon
news conference to "Fight for the Dignity of our Great American Pilots".
The
truth of the matter is that the Islamic Republic of Iran suffered a
long-due reckoning. One that was extremely costly to its aspirations of
domination and conquest. Its technical nuclear installations have
suffered grievous damage to its two-decade commitment to achieve nuclear
status. As long as the current regime continues to control the Iranian
government, state, military and populace with its iron grip, the strikes
that laid waste to its plans while a severe blow, will only reinforce
its determination to carry on.
The
only solution to the presence of a terrorist-ridden theocracy that
preys on its own people, stifling their lives and sacrificing their
well-being to the government's drive to replace the Arab Sunni-Muslim
majority dominance in the Middle East by its minority Persian
Shi'ite-Muslim envisioned conquest, with the aid of its satellite
terrorist proxies in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Gaza, is to destroy the
leadership of the Republic, its Islamist-jihad-dedicated Islamic
Republican Guard Corps, its Basij militias, and its terrorist proxies,
to free the people of Iran to resume life in a civilized nation, that
will be a threat to no one.

Labels: Bomb Threats, Islamic Republic of Iran, Israeli Aerial Bombardment in Iran, Nuclear Enrichment, U.S. Bunker-Buster Fordow Attack
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